What are the five elements of energy?

The Five Elements is China's ancient material view. Mostly used in philosophy, Chinese medicine and divination. The five elements refer to: gold, wood, water, fire and earth. It is believed that nature is composed of five elements, and with the rise and fall of these five elements, nature changes, which not only affects people's fate, but also makes everything in the universe circulate endlessly. According to the theory of five elements, everything in the universe is composed of the movement and change of five basic substances: wood, fire, earth, gold and water. It emphasizes the whole concept and describes the structural relationship and movement form of things. If Yin and Yang are an ancient theory of unity of opposites, the five elements can be said to be a primitive general system theory.

The attribute and classification method of the five elements The reason why the theory of the five elements can summarize all things in the universe is that the main thinking method is to divide things or phenomena into five categories according to the characteristics of the five elements and the different properties, functions and forms of things, which belong to the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire and earth respectively. And according to the relationship between the five elements and its laws, explain the connection and change of various things or phenomena. In medicine, it is used to clarify the complex physiological and pathological relationship between human organs and tissues and the close relationship between human body and external environment.

After the original theory of material elements of the five elements rose to the theory of the five elements, it basically did not simply refer to the five substances themselves, but was applied as an abstract concept of things' attributes. The five elements have their own characteristics, that is, "water is moist, fire is inflammation, wood is straight, gold is leather, and soil is good." This means that wood has the characteristics of hair growth and smoothness; Fire is hot and upward; Gold has the characteristics of convergence and transformation; The water is wet and downward. Therefore, according to the above characteristics, the things or phenomena that need to be explained are simply divided into five categories by using the method of "analogy classification", and each category of things or phenomena with similar attributes is classified into five elements respectively. On the basis of the classification of the five elements, the complex relations and changes of things or phenomena are explained or deduced by using the laws of the five elements.

In order to explain the integrity and complexity of the inside and outside of the human body, doctors in past dynasties have also made extensive contacts with viscera, physiological activities, pathological reactions and natural things closely related to human life.

(1) Explain the functions of the five internal organs with the characteristics of the five elements. For example, wood hair grows, and the liver is willing to achieve and control the discharge; Water-based moistening and descending, kidney storing essence and controlling water. Therefore, the liver belongs to wood, the kidney controls water, and so do other viscera.

(2) Five functional activity systems with five internal organs as the main body, five external drugs, five seasons and five qi, and five internal organs, five senses, body and emotion, etc. Formed.

(3) These five functional activity systems show that there is also a relationship of unity of opposites between the internal environment of human body and the external natural environment, for example, spring belongs to wood, spring is full of liver qi, and spring is windy. Inside, the liver and gallbladder are exterior and interior, which can enlighten eyes, strengthen tendons and control anger, and is easy to disperse wind in pathology.

It should be pointed out that the above is the horizontal connection of the table. If viewed vertically, it means that there is a connection between these five things or phenomena.

The significance of five-element attribute classification is mainly used to summarize some internal relations between human body and various things or phenomena in nature. For example, compare the characteristics of the five elements to illustrate some physiological functional characteristics of the five internal organs: for example, the wooden strips are tall and straight, which have the characteristics of hair growth, while the liver is soft and comfortable, mainly responsible for dispersing qi and ascending qi, so the liver belongs to wood; Fire is the image of yang heat, which has the nature of inflammation, while the heart is moved by yang and has the effect of warming, so the heart belongs to fire; Soil is the mother of all things, with the characteristics of biochemistry and nourishing all things, and Shui Gu, whose spleen can transport subtle things, is the source of biochemistry of qi and blood, so the spleen belongs to the soil; Gold has the function of clearing away astringency, and the lung governs respiration, so the lung belongs to gold; Water has the characteristics of downward humidification, and the kidney can store essence, regulate water-liquid metabolism and discharge wastewater downward, so the kidney controls water.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls this relationship between man and nature "the correspondence between man and nature", while the five-element theory classifies the viscera of human body and similar things in nature into five-element system, indicating that there is interaction and influence between the five-organ system of human body and similar things in nature. Moreover, there is a relationship of mutual promotion and mutual restriction between the systems, which shows that there is some physiological relationship between the zang-fu organs, which can explain some pathological phenomena and guide the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. For example, the spleen belongs to the soil, so it has some physiological internal relations with the "mouth" and "thinking" of the five senses, the "long summer" of the season and the "wet" of the climate, which can also be reflected and verified by pathology. If there is sweetness in the mouth, it can reflect spleen dampness.

Edit the basic rules of the five elements in this paragraph.

Multiplication, mutual loss, multiplication and mutual loss of the five elements are all abnormal phenomena caused by some factors. Multiply, that is, take advantage of virtual invasion. Bullying is bullying. Multiplication, that is, excessive interference, exceeds the power of normal restriction, thus making the structural relationship of the five elements system lose normal coordination. There are two kinds of abnormal phenomena: first, there are not enough victims, and the attacker uses his weakness to bully him. Second, the attacker is extremely arrogant, not limited by other lines, and relies on strength to attack the trip.

It should be noted that "phase grams" and "multiplication" are different, and phase grams are a restrictive relationship under normal circumstances; Multiplication is an abnormal phenomenon after the normal restriction relationship is destroyed. In the human body, the former is a physiological state and the latter is a pathological state.

Threatening each other, that is, opposing each other, also known as opposition. It is another manifestation of the structural relationship of the five elements system losing normal coordination. Similarly, there are two situations: first, the victim is extremely arrogant and unconstrained, but bullies the victim. For example, gold should resist wood. If wood is extremely arrogant, it is not made of gold, but an insult to gold, that is, wood insults gold. Second, the attacker is weak and the victim is insulted by its decline. For example, gold is weak, and wood humiliates gold because of its decline, that is, wood humiliates gold (decline)

So: "If you are energetic, you can control what you have gained and be invincible;" If you don't, you will benefit, and if you win, you will be light. " In other words, if the five elements are too angry with a certain line, they will over-limit the line they won (I gram) and multiply. And you insult his invincible trip, which is anti-grams. If the spirit of a certain line is insufficient, then my trip will be excessively restricted and I will take advantage of it. And my own winner, that is, my trip to Germany, will also be countered by my shortcomings. For example, the clinical symptoms of bronchiectasis are located in the lungs. Every time the liver qi stagnates, the breath is short, and the fire burns the lungs, but coughing up blood is the punishment of wood fire (that is, wood king humiliates gold); Stagnation of liver qi affects digestion and absorption of spleen and stomach, and it is stagnation of wood and soil. Damp-heat type hypertension, mostly due to damp-heat trapping the spleen, leads to the loss of liver qi, and the hyperactivity of liver yang is soil invasion. As for Jin Chengmu (deficiency) syndrome, it is rare in clinic.

The main reason why the structure of the five elements system can maintain dynamic balance and circular movement is that there are two self-regulating mechanisms and ways objectively. One is the "customized" adjustment under normal circumstances; One is the adjustment of "victory and recovery" under abnormal circumstances.

System, that is, restriction. Chemical, biochemical. The so-called control mainly refers to the adjustment of the structure of the five elements system through the interaction of mutual generation and interaction under normal conditions, also known as "five elements control".

First of all, it is obvious from the overall function of the five elements that the relationship between any two lines is not one-way, but mutual. Any one of the five elements has four relationships: giving birth to me, giving birth to me, restraining me and restraining me, so the normal relationship of "restraining" can be guaranteed.

That is to say, wood can kill soil, soil can produce gold, and gold can kill wood, thus making wood immortal, so it can nourish fire and make it biochemical normally.

Fire can kill gold, gold can produce water, and water can kill fire, so fire can last forever, so it can nourish the soil and make it biochemical normally.

Soil can overcome water, water can produce wood, and wood can overcome soil, so soil can last forever, so it can nourish gold and make it biochemical.

Gold can kill wood, wood can make a fire, and fire can kill gold, so that gold can live forever, so it can nourish water and make it biochemical normally.

Water can overcome fire, fire can produce soil, and soil can overcome water, so water can last forever, so it can nourish wood and make it biochemical normally.

It can be seen that it is this restriction of opposites and complementarities that regulates and maintains the relative coordination and balance of the structure of things. Because the process of mutual growth and mutual resistance is also the process of the growth and decline of things, in this process, the often unbalanced growth and decline is itself the re-adjustment of mutual growth and mutual resistance, so that coordination and balance will appear again. It is this circular movement that seeks balance in the imbalance, and the balance is immediately replaced by a new imbalance, which promotes the constant change and development of things.

The so-called victory-recovery adjustment mainly refers to a large-cycle adjustment function of the five-element system structure under abnormal conditions, that is, under the condition of large local imbalance, through mutual resistance. The adjustment of victory and recovery can make the structure of the five elements system temporarily decline from prosperity, and then restore balance from imbalance after adjustment.

The so-called "victory" is a spiritual victory, which refers to the excessive restraint of a certain line on the journey of "winning by yourself". Once the victory of Qi appears, it will inevitably lead to an opposite force to suppress it, which is the so-called recovery of Qi. Therefore, Su Wen added: "If there is a winning spirit, it will come back." Moreover, winning qi is heavy, and recovering qi is also heavy. Qi's victory is light, and so is Qi's recovery.

For example, if the internal heat is too strong, it will lead to too much gold, which will lead to the decrease of internal heat, which will not make wood, but will lead to the intensification of soil-making. The restraint of internal heat will weaken the power of making water and make the water flourish, and excessive internal heat will be cut down to make it return to normal. If the internal heat is insufficient, it will be excessively restrained by water, and the fire failure will not make gold, which will lead to excessive gold gas. If the gold gas is strong, it will strengthen the wood making, make the wood weak and the soil weak, weaken the fire, gradually restore the internal heat and maintain its normal.

If there is a simple victory without recovery, that is to say, when one of the five elements has more than enough (too much) without the corresponding restriction of the other, the coordinated relationship of the five elements system structure will be destroyed, and there will be a disordered abnormal state, which will lead to serious diseases.

To sum up, we can regard the relationship between the five elements as a logical expansion and supplement of the relationship between Yin and Yang. The affected people react to the affected people through some intermediate links, resulting in feedback adjustment effect, thus maintaining the relative balance of the system structure.

The principle conception of editing this realistic image

Specific understanding of things by water knowledge

Mu En is an inner reaction to things.

Fire sincerity is an action based on inner reaction.

Analysis of soil in the process of action

Gold raw water, aquatic wood fire, fire, soil gold.

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Five elements and Confucianism happen occasionally, which correspond to Confucian benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and trust, and are indispensable. The ancients were really great! Please seriously think about the five elements of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith. I believe you will live a very happy life.

In the five elements theory and geography, the south belongs to fire, the east belongs to wood, the north belongs to water and the west belongs to golden soil, which helps Jin Mu to balance fire and water.

The relationship between five elements and seasons. The five elements refer to the five movement modes of gas.

Spring belongs to wood, which represents the movement mode of qi spreading around. In spring, flowers and trees flourish, the branches of trees spread around, and nutrients are transported to the branches, so spring belongs to trees.

Summer belongs to fire, which means that qi moves upward. The characteristic of fire is upward. In summer, all kinds of plants grow upward and rapidly, so summer belongs to fire.

Autumn belongs to gold, which means that qi contracts inward. Gold is characterized by stability, harvest in autumn, people save food for winter and leaves fall, so autumn belongs to gold.

Winter belongs to water, which means that qi moves downward. Water flows downwards, and everything sleeps in winter, saving nutrients for spring, so winter belongs to water.

There are four lines because there are four seasons, but there is a transition between summer and autumn, so there is soil, which means that the gas runs smoothly.

Five hours (autumn, spring, winter, summer, long summer), and the harmony between the five elements and time and time was a method of timing in ancient China. 24 hours * * is divided into 12 hours, starting from 1 1 in the evening, corresponding to 12: zi, ugly, yin, Mao, Chen, Si and Mao.

Yin, Mao and Chen belong to the wood, dominating the spring and representing the east;

Fourth, noon, no fire, dominate the summer, representing the south;

Shen, You and Xu belong to Jin, dominating Qiu, representing the West;

Hai, Zi and Ugly belong to the water, which dominates winter and represents the north;

Chen, Wei, Xu and Ugliness belong to the earth, dominating the last month of the four seasons and representing the four directions.